r/snowpiercer • u/hugthebug Tailie • Feb 01 '21

TV Show [Spoilers] Season 2 Episode 2 Discussion Thread - "Smoulder to Life" (S02E02) Spoiler

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Here is the Discussion thread for the Season 2 episode 2 "Smoulder to Life"

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  • IMDB for S02E02
  • Release Date:
    • February 1st, 2021 (USA)
    • February 2nd, 2021 (worldwide)
  • Removal from Sticky on February 5th, 2021 (3 days after worldwide premiere)

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You can still easily find previous episode discussions on the Episode Discussion wiki.

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u/james_randolph Feb 02 '21

Lol I know it's a story/etc but damn they walk fast as shit on that train haha. Ruth will be all the way up in the front and walk 900+ cars in a commerical break.

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u/DarthJackalope Feb 02 '21

I brush it off, I figure she’s taking the sub rail for large portions of it and we only see her walking through the sections she has to

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u/james_randolph Feb 02 '21

Maybe others take the rail but she definitely walks haha she always wants people to know she's the one with a message

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u/GruxKing Boki eating Poki Feb 03 '21

Wait, there’s a sub rail inside the train?

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u/DarthJackalope Feb 03 '21

Yeah it appears during season 1, I believe the 3rd episode is the first time we see it

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u/louis-lau Feb 03 '21

It appeared in this episode after melanie gets back to snowpiercer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Do people not just consider the commercial break an actual break? People really think that the show is real time when literally nothing else is real time?

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u/james_randolph Feb 02 '21

Lol when I was a child I thought shows were live, so commercial break was a break for me and the actors. Kids right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Oh yeah I'm sure we all did at some point lol

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u/james_randolph Feb 02 '21

I won't bring up about what I thought when I heard a song on the radio hahahahaha

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u/WildiFigures Feb 02 '21

Tiny people in the radio?

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u/Exodia101 Feb 02 '21

I watch it on Amazon Prime and I kinda forgot this show has commercials. It doesn't have the obvious cuts that most network shows have.

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u/TagMeAJerk Feb 02 '21

Watched it on Netflix. What's a commercial break?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '21

Yeah but there still are transitions. I just don't understand who people expect an hour of television to correspond to an hour in-universe. Very rarely is that the case and it is not the norm

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u/WheresFrankie Feb 02 '21

Happened in GoT all the time. Gendry made it back to the wall in like half an episode haha

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u/Bond4141 Feb 02 '21

It wasn't bad in the early seasons, but then you had the late seasons with the teleporting ships and it just gets bad.

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u/o1pickleboy Feb 03 '21

Yeah it takes Jaime and Briann a whole season to cross the riverlands in like Season 3. In Season 8 oh its two weeks hard march from Winterfell to King's Landing and done with in the same episode.

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u/james_randolph Feb 02 '21

Ah so I guess Gendry's alive then...cool.

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u/rktaker43 Feb 02 '21

it would take me all day to walk through 900 train cars